Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Master server upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
In addition to the normal server requirements, NetBackup cluster installations require special considerations.
The following describes the guidelines for NetBackup cluster installations and upgrades on Windows systems:
Table: Windows cluster requirements for installation and upgrade
Item | Requirement |
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Server operating system | |
Privileges | To perform clustered installations, you must have administrator privileges on all of the remote nodes in the cluster. Veritas recommends that you keep a record of all nodes in the cluster and what software exists on each node. |
NetBackup virtual name and IP address | Have the virtual name and IP address for NetBackup available. You must provide this information during installation. |
Operating system on nodes | All clustered nodes must use the same operating system version, service pack level, and NetBackup version. You cannot run mixed server versions in a clustered environment. |
Cluster support changes for media servers | Clustered media servers are not supported. |
Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) | |
Cluster Server (VCS) clusters |
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Cluster node device configuration and upgrades | When you upgrade clusters, the |